Archive for September, 2007
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My two bitches…
Actually neither of them are – Guido is a dog, and Elle hasn’t got a bitchy bone in her body. But the headline got your attention didn’t it! 
Chaos Theory…
Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?
The title of a paper given by Edward Lorenz in 1972
How many of have misquoted that title I wonder?
Björk
I never quite ‘got’ Björk in her early days. But over the years have really come to appreciate her work. A lot of my friends still don’t ‘get it’. when you look at the range of what she’s done – she really is something special! I really believe she is an ‘artist’ in the true sense of the word – not just a run of the mill ‘entertainer’ (Think Robbie Williams et al and consider the difference). Apart from that she’s also very strangely attractive!
Videos: Isobel | Violently Happy | I Miss You | It´s Oh So Quiet
Al Qaeda
We English have been the victims of their attacks too, and one of my favourite quotes ever was by Ken Livingstone the Mayor of London after the Attacks on 7th July 2005… (It applies equally to the events of 911 too…)
“I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners— black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old— indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for caste, for religion or whatever. Read the rest of this entry »
911
It´s hard for anyone to let this date pass without remembering what happened. I guess this will, to use an English reference, be written into history like the gun powder plot. Now there’s a thought, lets go and burn some effigies of Bin Laden… They seem to like burning our Union Flag and the Stars and Stripes, lets return the compliment.
The murdering scum who committed the atrocities on 911 will no doubt rot in their own version of hell for their deeds… Read the rest of this entry »
